Veteran HRD Qin Yongmin has received a 13-year prison sentence for “subversion of state power,” adding to the 22 years he had previously spent behind bars, in retaliation for his writings and advocacy promoting democracy and defending human rights.
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在709三周年之际，持续努力追究中国政府迫害律师和维权公民的罪责
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On this third anniversary of the “709” Crackdown, CHRD calls for perpetrators to be held to account for the Chinese government’s persecution of lawyers.
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On the 29th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, CHRD urges China to free Liu Xia. This act would be one way to both end the suppression of truth about the violent crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy protests and bring about a measure of justice for victims, including her deceased husband, (read more…)
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CHRD urges the Chinese government to release citizens exercising their right to freedom of peaceful assembly, including many laborers, who police had intimidated and detained for planning protests and strikes around the May 1st International Labor Day.
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Under Xi Jinping, the pace of expanding censorship and control over cyberspace has accelerated in the name of “cyber sovereignty.” Just in the past year, a flurry of measures has been proposed or implemented to increase police surveillance of the Internet under the guise of protecting “national security.”
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The Chinese government must release activist Zhen Jianghua, an activist working with Human Rights Campaign in China (HRCC). Zhuhai police have formally arrested him on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power,” according to his lawyer.
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(2018年3月14日发布) 经“曹顺利人权捍卫者纪念奖”发起机构表决，决定将第四届“曹顺利人权捍卫者纪念奖”颁发给人权捍卫者陈建芳女士和李小玲女士。2018年3月14日是曹顺利女士在她被任意羁押期间受折磨而被夺去生命四周年纪念日，该日被大陆维权人士设定为“人权捍卫者日”。
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Human rights defenders Chen Jianfang and Li Xiaoling have been named the co-recipients of the fourth Cao Shunli Memorial Award for Human Rights Defenders. The two women defenders are recognized for their contributions in promoting human rights at the grassroots level in China. March 14 marks the fourth anniversary of (read more…)
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Chinese human rights defenders demonstrated remarkable resilience in promoting and protecting human rights in the face of government repression, says CHRD in its annual report. Repression & Resilience documents the situation of human rights defenders in China in 2017.
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（CHRD – 2017年1月29日）在最近的几个月内，中国司法部门又开始新一轮对人权律师的打压活动，先后非法剥夺了几位律师的执业权利，受害律师包括余文生律师，隋牧青律师，祝圣武律师，吴有水律师，王理乾律师，王龙德律师。这是官方在报复惩罚这些律师正当行使言论自由权、敢言批评当局的司法腐败、并努力倡导司法独立。
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Chinese authorities have stripped several human rights lawyers of their law licenses in recent months, sending a strong signal that the government will continue to punish lawyers who are not cowed into silence by the “July 2015 Crackdown.”
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